Evidence God Exists: Part II

[Caecilian]

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@ Thor- Could you please define the cceptable parameters for a " a rational point that "points toward the existence of God"."so I could answer your question.

Something stastically significant (I've mentioned this before. Show me where believers -in whatever deity you want to use - have a longer life expectancy, are wealthier, have a lower rate of childhood cancer, have lower rates of blindness, paralysis, birth defects, etc... than non-believers)...

I’m not sure there’s even a study to address such issues. If there is, please point to it. For now, here are some things to consider:

Have you ever noticed that whenever there are big disasters in the world, they are usually happening in regions that either worship different gods from ours, or practice non-Abrahamic religions? Idolatry is one of the most offensive sins to God, if not the most, as evidenced by the constant warnings and admonitions mentioned in the Old Testament. The bible also cautions that entire nations will be punished for this sin.*

Keeping this in mind, here are some recent events:

2004 Tsunami killing 300,000 people, occurring mainly in Buddhist and Hindu regions.

2008 China earthquake: 68,000 dead.

2010 Haiti earthquake: 250,000 dead. This in contrast to the 2010 Chilean earthquake, which killed only 521. While Haitians consider themselves mainly Roman Catholic, the majority of Haitians practice Voodoo as a syncretic religion. http://www.travelinghaiti.com/haitian_voodoo.asp

2005 Hurricane Katrina killed 1,836 people in Louisiana, which has the largest Voodoo following in the United States. The greatest concentration of casualties occurred in New Orleans, which has the greatest concentration of Voodoo followers.

And so on and so forth…

Ever since I can remember, whenever there are huge world disasters, they are usually happening in idolatrous regions or nations. God punishes people and nations for different reasons, and Christians get punished as well. But it appears idolatrous nations get the worst of it.

I could’ve posted this on a separate thread as additional evidence God exists, but here it is anyway.

*I’m citing the bible not to proselytize, but to demonstrate how the scriptures can be corroborated in today’s world.

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All of which explains why the greatest single epidemic in history, the Black Death of 1348-50, mainly affected christian Europe. Betwen 1/4 and 1/3 of the population is reckoned to have died.

It also explains why the Roman Empire was devastated by plague after it converted to christianity.

And what about the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755? Or the many earthquakes in Southern Italy and Sicily? I guess that they don't have anything to do with plate tectonics after all. Silly me for thinking that they did! It must be that god loves and protects christians except for the ones that live in certain regions (the Chileans and Mexicans are obviously in his bad books as well).

AngelThMan: You are a complete fucking idiot. You know nothing about science, or history, or what does and does not count as evidence.